What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those... Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 49by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
| Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup - 1912 - 354 pages
...— IRVING. 28. I think they are trying to outwit Nature, who is sure to be cunninger than they. 29. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
| Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - 1913 - 336 pages
...testimony. What must I do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the...world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the 25 people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the...you know it. It is easy in the world to live after 30 the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in... | |
| Richard Johnson Walker - 1913 - 592 pages
...lies the crisis, to maintain good manners and yet keep up the combat. " It is easy," says Emerson, " to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
| 1914 - 640 pages
...Topics. WHAT I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the...world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1914 - 398 pages
...lies the crisis, to maintain good manners and yet keep up the combat. " It is easy," says Emerson, " to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...What I must do is all that concerns me ; not what the 20 people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the...what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy 25 in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ;... | |
| Elizabeth Hazelton Haight - 1919 - 442 pages
...responsibilities of the college. I I 8 -3 I KJ CHAPTER VI Work Resumed: The Call to Brown, 1896-1899 "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great tnan is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
| 1921 - 1088 pages
...October-November. Rose Geranium : September-October. Cassie : October- November. Maintain Equilibrium It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it Js easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...is all that concerns me; not what the think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in illectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between...know what is your duty better than you know it. It is_eaj3y in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own;... | |
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